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Mithraic monuments

Monuments, inscriptions and artefacts related to Mithras and his cult.

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Mithraeum

Mithräum von Schwarzerden
The Mithraeum of Schwarzerden was carved on the rock.
TNMM90 – CIMRM 1280
Monumentum

Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan
This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.
TNMM106 – CIMRM 310, 311
Sig(num) imdeprehensivilis dei G(aius) Valerius Heracles sacerdos s(ua) p(ecunia) p(osuit). L(ucius) Sextius Karus et.
Monumentum

Intaglio with Tauroctony from The Met
This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.
TNMM769 – CIMRM 2361
ABLANATHANALBA TUXEUI.
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Burham
To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.
TNMM592 – CIMRM 808
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Prozor
The Mithraea in the territory of Arupium were first mentioned by Š. Ljubić in 1882.
TNMM59
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Ponza
The Mithraeum of Ponza was discovered in 1866. It contained the remains of a zodiac investigated by Vermaseren in 1989.
TNMM96
Monumentum

Zodiac stucco of Ponza
Solis invicti Mithrae studiosus astrologiae who was at the same time ’caelo devotus et astris’.
TNMM335
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Ottaviano Zeno
In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.
TNMM125 – CIMRM 335
Monumentum

Altar to Transitus from Sárkeszi
This is one of the altars erected by Septimius Valentinus, in this case, to the transitus of Mithras.
TNMM768 – CIMRM 1811
Tra(n)sit[u D(ei)] / Sep(timius) Va/lenti/nus / opt(io).
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Sárkeszi
In this relief found in the Sárkeszi Mithraeum, Cautes and Cautopates hold an Amazon shield.
TNMM767